Are we speaking the same language? It seems to me that my assertion on Schengen being one of the safest guarded areas in the world, from my very first post in this thread, has been about the present situation not about hypothetical pasts at t-1, t-5 or t-10, about which I did not comment.

That said, as for our compared experiences, maybe I look more worrying than you but having totalled literally hundreds of flights to/from virtually every country within Schengen except Luxembourg in the past 5 years, the passport waving has accounted for well below 5% of my experiences.